Charlie Deakin Davies

Charlie Helen Deakin Davies (born 9 June 1995) is a British musician from Walkern. They have released multiple EPs including Green under the name DIDI and Dog Bowl under the name Charlieeeee. They have also co-written the Gary Barlow song "Let's Get Drunk" and the Ellie Dixon song "Swing", the Kate Dimbleby album Songbirds and the compilation album The F Spot Femme Fatales, directed the Piri & Tommy tour Froge.tour, and supported China Crisis. They joined Loud LDN in August 2024.

Life and career

Early life, The Folk, and Delora Charlie Helen Deakin Davies was born on 9 June 1995 in Walkern, and attended Freman College. They got into music after being given an electric guitar by their father aged ten; around this time, they formed a band which played funk, indie, and grunge music, which they were in for around five years. Aged fifteen, all four spent time busking in Hertford, a recording studio in Dane End in Hertfordshire which closed in 2021. The band released a single, "When It Rains", and then an EP.

Deakin Davies, Holmes, Goodship, and Saward later attended Freman College, the remaining members later changed their name to Delora, after discovering the word while googling at 3am and discovering a Latin word that meant "by the seashore", and released a single, "Come Alive", inspired by the sensation of being cheered up by music. They later released an EP, Superglue, and then another single, "Sober", by which time Goodship had also left.

Folkstock Records, DIDI, and "Let's Get Drunk" Deakin Davies' first production works were made at the back of a converted shed at the end of their parents' garden, and which was built by their stepdad. They produced Kelly Oliver's debut album, "This Land", which was released in 2013 on Folkstock Records, a record label Deakin Davies' mother, Helen Meissner, had set up specifically to release the music they had recorded together; the label later released a second album by Oliver, Bedlam, in March 2016. Deakin Davies also produced the label's The F Spot Femme Fatales, a compilation album for International Women's Day 2015, which appeared on the Daily Telegraph'''s "Best Folk albums of 2015" list. In 2016, they produced Ships by Bethan Lee, and in 2017, they produced Songbirds by Kate Dimbleby, an a cappella album.

In March 2017, they began releasing music of their own under the name DIDI, a contraction of their surname, after writing "Sorry" and finding they wanted to record it themselves; they then released the singles "Awkward", "Back Off", and "Fickle Friends", and then the Green EP, which contained "Go!". In October 2017, they supported China Crisis at the Horn in St Albans. In February 2019, Gary Barlow hired Deakin-Davies as a studio assistant; Moved by the response, they cofounded the Trans Creative Collective, a directory of transgender musicians. in a September 2021 interview with Moths and Giraffes, they asserted that they contacted Dixon after hearing their earlier track "Sucker" on New Music Friday. they directed Piri & Tommy's Froge.tour. Around this time, Deakin Davies was scouted for a year-long mentorship programme led by Fred Again, as part of which they cowrote a track with him, Raye, MNEK, and Kamille. Again hosted Trans Creative Collective production workshops in 2026 as part of their Trans+ Future Sounds initiative.

For 2023, Deakin Davies made a New Year's resolution to finish every song they started, regardless of opinion. One song completed in this manner was "Easy", a love song directed at a partner and friends, which came about after Piri gave them some breakbeats to mess around with. The song was released alongside a video containing a commentary on being a queer person in a heteronormative society, In May 2024, Deakin Davies announced their debut EP Dogbowl'', A further single, "Sunburn", was written about falling in love with best friends. Deakin Davies released the EP in June 2024. and in March 2024, DIY described "Bumped in the Head" as a fusion of "heavy D'n'B beats with synth-pop melodies"; In August 2024, they joined Loud LDN, a collective of London-based women and genderqueer musicians founded in May 2022.

Discography

EPs TitleDetailsGreen (DIDI) Released: 1 November 2018 Format: Digital download, streamingDogbowl (Charlieeeee) Released: 14 June 2024 Format: Digital download, streamingFish Food (Charlieeeee) Released: 19 June 2026 Format: Digital download, streaming

Singles